Earlier this week, the governor announced a new round of capacity restrictions, designed to limit individuals’ exposure to people not in their immediate circle, in another effort to stem another COVID-19 spike during the holiday season.
Baker announced that capacity limits will be reduced to 25% for a range of sectors, including offices and restaurants.
The new limits also apply to retail businesses, grocery stores, houses of worship, gyms, movie theaters, casinos, close-contact personal services, libraries, arcades, hotel common areas, and driving and flight schools.
Currently, most of those industries are subject to a statewide 40% capacity limit.
Massachusetts hadn’t previously imposed percentage-based occupancy limits on restaurants — just what this struggling industry doesn’t need; they were only subject to social-distancing rules and table limits.
The new limit rules, building on prior stay-at-home advisories and mask mandates, don’t take effect until today — a day late in our opinion.
Enforcing these limits on Christmas Day might have incurred the ire of some religious communities, but it might also have kept home those fair-weather worshippers who only attend church on high holidays.
We understand the Boston Archdiocese laid out some sensible rules for in-person attendance and also promoted Catholic TV as a viable option, but reverting to completely remote services — like the state’s major Episcopal churches did — would have been a safer alternative.
And of course, none of the governor’s directives can actually control the most COVID contagious behavior; that happens in the privacy of everyone’s home.
Short of a police state, that remains a frustratingly elusive goal.
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